Man weeing in the street

[Dailywalk]

Yabu - if you gotta go, you gotta go

yanbu- beyond the potty training years, pissing in the street is completely unacceptable.

for context this was busy street, near schools, at 3:30pm today while I was walking my child home from school. Man pissing up against a home’s garden wall.

Dh has managed to pee outdoors when on walks or something in very out of the way places, where he would only likely to be spotted by someone else trying to have a pee. He would wait until he found a public loo or something if he was just out on streets because he isn't a pervert.

I saw a man having a piss outside the main shopping centre in my town this lunchtime. There are nice clean open public toilets less than 10 metres from where he was having a pee in the open in front of passers by.

Gross little pervert.

no, just no. Discipline and a toilet, or somewhere truly private, are the only proper options

It's easy to say that until you find yourself caught short (which doesn't usually happen to people who work in a fixed location). Spend all day on the road in unfamiliar locations and one day you're guaranteed to have a close call.

Absolutely disgusting but we do need more public toilets again, they seem to have closed most of them x

Yes there is definitely a huge need for properly run public lavatories. I’d be prepared to pay a bit more in taxes to fund them too.

And there is a lot of class-ism with regard to this issue. If you are working in a nice middle class office with nice lavs you never have to worry. But if you are working in a delivery van or between people’s homes then it’s a more difficult problem.

I think it’s really appalling the way that people who deliver our Amazon parcels are treated for example without proper rest breaks and facilities.

Agreed

I think there are two issues here imo

Drunk men/men weeing near public toilets but not in them/issues where men might be using it as an excuse to flash/sheer laziness/mental health issues etc

Lack of public toilets/poor working conditions for delivery drivers etc

The second one is a real issue, and also an issue that affects women more closely too. If there is no access to public toilets and delivery drivers etc lack facilities or the time to access them then men can, as we have said, quite easily get around this, for weeing at least. But women could conceivably be forced out of those jobs.

And whilst someone mentioned supermarket toilets (for smaller vehicles at least) that's more of an urban solution. I can think of at least 4 large villages/small towns in our local vicinity that dont have a supermarket big enough for a toilet, but did used to have public toilets that have now been closed down. Plenty of hedges for male delivery drivers to use, not many options for female delivery drivers.

And there is a lot of class-ism with regard to this issue. If you are working in a nice middle class office with nice lavs you never have to worry. But if you are working in a delivery van or between people’s homes then it’s a more difficult problem.

This unfortunately.

You'd be amazed how many companies banned drivers from using the toilets onsite during covid, despite it being a legal requirement to provide accessible sanitisation facilities for anyone working at that premises.

The HSE were sending out letters to employers asking that they report any companies not following procedure, but it didn't seem to have much effect as companies even had signs up saying toilets were only for company staff.